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5. Go somewhere else??? Where??? Can the person that suggested this tell me where to go to find a full time job with benefits right now or even before the economy took a dive? The fact is that in just about any house, you have to spend 2 or 3 years with no benefits to get full time. The Wynn dealers left full time jobs, seniority, and benefits to go work for this man. They put their faith in him. They gave him their best. They worked for years to gain the experience that was required to qualify. They are now just trying to protect their profession and investment.
6. The union has protected the dealers from other "changes" the casino wanted to make. Including making them pay 10% of their earnings for health insurance. Ask the labor commissioner. Wynn tried to change the Labor Commissioners administrative policy to allow this. At this point, it would just be cheaper for Wynn to fire all the dealers and hire new people under a new title, like they did to the cocktail waitresses at Rio. As long as the union is there, Wynn can't do that. Get rid of the union? Not on your life!!! And by the way, nobody cares about going to Encore except about 5 people. Can't go to Encore? What a horrible loss!!!

WOW!!! I can't believe that people do not realize how far reaching this could be. It's not that the dealers at Wynn are suffering making $80,000 a year. The real issues here are:

1. If this is found to be "legal", every tip earner in town will be sharing tips with supervisors. The fact is that other houses haven't done this yet because of the threat of the union and because there is not a clear ruling by any court yet. If those dealers had not fought, every tip earner in town would already be paying his supervisor with his tips. Billion dollar corporations should pay for their managements' salaries.
2. Getting a return on their investment? Isn't the hundreds of millions of dollars Wynn makes enough of a return on their investment? Now they have to go into their employee's pockets to get even more of a return on their investment? They build these giant buildings to make money from customers and they make billions. Isn't that enough?
3. I'm sure the Wynn dealers are happy to have jobs in this economy but remember, this all started before the economy took a dive. No decent human being should ever take advantage of any situation just to be able to take something from his employees or to treat them inhumanly. Should all the casinos cut everyone's pay in half and then tell them that they should just be happy to have a job in this economy? Beggars can't be choosers huh? What a great way to treat people. The casino's earnings went down from 1.3 BILLION September '07 to 950 MILLION September '08. That's 1 MONTH!!! These casinos aren't hurting even in this economy.
4. Just because Nevada is a right to work state doesn't mean that employers do not have to follow the law. You can't pay less than minimum wage as a condition of employment because it's against the law. You can't allow people to work in an unsafe working environment as a condition of employment because it's against the law. The law says, "It is unlawful for any person to take all or part of his employees tips". Employers still have to follow the law whether this is a right to work state or not.

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